Alaska Loses Legal Effort to Access 28 Million Acres of Land

Alaska’s challenge to the Biden administration’s decision not to open access to 28 million acres of land can’t proceed because the decision-making process as to whether to open the lands is ongoing, a federal court in the state ruled.

The state filed its lawsuit after the Bureau of Land Management postponed Trump-era decisions that revoked land withdrawals covering nearly 28 million acres of federal public lands.

BLM listed multiple issues with the public land orders in its April 2021 decision, including a failure to get consent from the Department of Defense for lands withdrawn for defense purposes. The PLOs also ...